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I Will Exalt You, My God and King

Psalms 145:9

In 11 translations

BSB
The LORD is good to all; His compassion rests on all He has made.
KJV
The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.
WEB
Yahweh is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.
ASV
Jehovah is good to all; And his tender mercies are over all his works.
LSV
YHWH [is] good to all, || And His mercies [are] over all His works.
YLT
Good [is] Jehovah to all, And His mercies [are] over all His works.
DBY
Jehovah is good to all; and his tender mercies are over all his works.
DRC144:9
The Lord is sweet to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.
GNV
The Lord is good to all, and his mercies are ouer all his workes.
JPS
The LORD is good to all; and His tender mercies are over all His works.
LXXE144:9
The Lord is good to those that wait on him; and his compassions are over all his works.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
טוֹב־יְהוָ֥ה לַכֹּ֑ל וְ֝רַחֲמָ֗יו עַל־כָּל־מַעֲשָֽׂיו׃
LXX-Br144:9
Χρηστὸς Κύριος τοῖς ὑπομένουσι, καὶ οἱ οἰκτιρμοὶ αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ πάντα τὰ ἔργα αὐτοῦ.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Nahum 1:7The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of distress; He cares for those who trust in Him.
  • Psalms 100:5For the LORD is good, and His loving devotion endures forever; His faithfulness continues to all generations.
  • Matthew 5:45that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
  • Jonah 4:11So should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well?”
  • Acts 17:25Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.
  • Psalms 104:27All creatures look to You to give them their food in due season.
  • Psalms 65:9–13You attend to the earth and water it; with abundance You enrich it. The streams of God are full of water, for You prepare our grain by providing for the earth. You soak its furrows and level its ridges; You soften it…
  • Psalms 36:6–7Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments are like the deepest sea. O LORD, You preserve man and beast. How precious is Your loving devotion, O God, that the children of men take refuge in the…
  • Acts 14:17Yet He has not left Himself without testimony to His goodness: He gives you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.”
  • Psalms 25:8Good and upright is the LORD; therefore He shows sinners the way.

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